Bug#291237: marked as done (tomcat4-admin: admin context does not work because it has symlinked jar files)

Wed Jan 19 15:40:04 2005

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From: Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it>
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Subject: tomcat4-admin: admin context does not work because it has symlinked jar files
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Package: tomcat4-admin
Version: 4.1.31-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The struts.jar in /usr/share/tomcat4/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib
directory is symlinked to the jar /usr/share/struts1.1/struts.jar of the
package libstruts1.1-java.

This makes the admin context not work because tomcat is unable to use
jar files symlinked to other locations.

The solution is to copy the real jar in WEB-INF/lib instead to use a
symlink.

Of course if it would be possible to tell tomcat to follow symbolic
links it would be much better, but I don't know if this is possible.

Alex

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Versions of packages tomcat4-admin depends on:
ii  libstruts1.1-java             1.1-2      Java Framework for MVC web applica
ii  tomcat4                       4.1.31-2   Java Servlet 2.3 engine with JSP 1

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To: Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it>
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Subject: Re: Bug#291237: Problem solved...
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Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:39:45 +0100, 
Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it> wrote: 

> Responding to myself.
> I didn't knew that using :
>
> <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
> allowLinking="true" />
>
> inside the admin context could solve the problem also for jars.
>
> Please close the bug since it's not relevant any more.
>
> Sorry,

No problem, thanks for your interest in Debian and Tomcat and Java ;-)

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